Innovative anti-glare glass will be installed at Barcelona’s Unesco World Heritage Site, la Sagrada Familia. The glass, LuxPrint, provides high image definition despite it being anti-glare etched, enabling the site’s visitors to better admire long distance views from the iconic building. According to glass specialists Savasa Technologics, the LuxPrint glass is unique at an international level, and has attracted the interest of architects and specifiers with anti-glare requirements.
When looking into how to effectively glaze the triangular openings of the basilica’s six central towers, while at the same time ensuring glare resistance, Sevasa Technologics presented three solutions: LuxPrint 6, LuxPrint 8 and LuxPrint 10. Each of these products provides a different level of anti-glare and distance vision, on face one and with only pure glass, without layers or additives. They are all available in a large format glass sheet, up to nine metres long.
LuxPrint 10, on an 8mm thick extra-clear base and jumbo size, was chosen (LP10 8mm + optical 8mm with two butyrals), forming part of the massive panels of stressed stone, which reach up to 31 tons in weight (an elephant weighs seven tons) and five meters high and wide. Once the main tower, which is devoted to Jesus Christ, is finished, it will have a height of 172.5m, which will make it the tallest building in Barcelona.
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LuxPrint’s unique features provide multiple building and design application options, says Sevasa Technologics. It makes achieving glass facades and structures that minimise glare and reflections possible, and can be applied even on vision areas if required. LuxPrint was created as valuable glass for digital printing (with both organic and ceramic paints), as well as for laminates with marble, stone or wood, so it enhances colours and provides elegance. It reportedly allows for choosing the level of anti-reflection and colour enhancement among its three options, and, frees the glass ideal side for digital printing, even in 2mm thick or extra large sheet (up to nine meters). Sevasa Technologics claims that the product is ideal for both indoor and outdoor applications.
